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Casting Couch: Bullock, Mitchell, Cross

By Garth Franklin Thursday August 25th 2005 06:35PM

"Sandra Bullock is negotiating to star in "Premonition," the Hollywood debut of German director Mennan Yapo ("Soundless"). Drama is fully financed by Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park, with TriStar distributing. Shooting begins in January in Louisiana. Bill Kelly script revolves around a woman who has a premonition that her husband will die in a car crash and sets out to prevent it..." (full details)

"Radha Mitchell and Paddy Considine are boarding "PU-239," a black comedy crime drama that Scott Burns is writing and directing for Picturehouse. The story follows a nuclear facility technician (Considine) who, after an accident, travels to Moscow with his wife (Mitchell) in search of work and finds his life intersecting with that of a Russian gangster. "PU-239" is the atomic number for plutonium..." (full details)

"Joseph Cross has joined the cast of Clint Eastwood's World War II film "Flags of Our Father." The movie is based on James Bradley's book "Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima" and was adapted by Paul Haggis. The Battle of Iwo Jima, which took place in winter 1945, was a turning point in the Pacific theater. About 6,000 Americans died and 17,000 were wounded during the Battle of Iwo Jima..." (full details)

Thanks to 'KC'.

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